"spur research" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, "The government's new initiative is designed to spur research in the field of renewable energy."
This could be a powerful tool to spur research institutions, Member States and the EC to partner with young researchers to implement real change".
Many people with sick relatives will try to collect money, start a foundation, lobby Congress, harangue scientists and take other steps to spur research on that disease.
Researchers from various academic centers are now working together and pooling tissue samples to spur research that will determine when Barrett's is most likely to become cancerous.
To spur research in the technology, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., enlists many scientists in annual evaluations to see how their computer programs stack up in matching unidentified voices with the actual speakers.
In order to spur research efforts across a wide range of mathematical disciplines, the privately funded Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts, named seven "Millennium Prize Problems" in 2000, each with a million-dollar award for a correct solution.
The National Bioeconomy Blueprint, as the plan is called, discusses a variety of measures and strategies to spur research and development of medical treatments, crops, biofuels and biological manufacturing processes that would replace harsher industrial methods.
The development of CAPTCHAs has spurred research in visual recognition, a field in artificial intelligence that has applications in optical scanning software, remote sensing, and robotics.
Some experts and advocates argued that ending the University of Mississippi's de facto monopoly on growing research-grade marijuana was more important to spurring research than reclassifying the drug.
Dr. Ammerman, 58, an expert about things Venetian, has decided to air his findings widely in hopes of thwarting the project and spurring research on alternative ways of saving Venice, a cultural icon that 10 million people visit each year.
She has been singularly effective as a parent activist, not only in spurring research into a cure for the disease but in working with doctors and drug companies to improve care.
"The typical life span isn't that long, so it doesn't have the recurring revenue stream, to put it bluntly," said Stephen M. Case, chairman of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, a nonprofit group that spurs research on treatments for the disease.
